Powerball Jackpot Reaches $37 Million
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game is on the rise again. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 331,569 players across the nation won a total of more than $3 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $37 million.The cash option for the Saturday, January 17 drawing will be an estimated $20.3 million.The numbers drawn were: 12, 33, 40, 44, 50 and the Powerball was 40. ...
Jan 15, 2004, 5:56 am - Lottery News forum
Powerball Jackpot Reaches $29 Million
The temperatures may be cold across the nation but Powerball is hot. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 398,598 players across the nation won a total of more than $4.4 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $29 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, January 14 drawing will be an estimated $15.7 million.The numbers drawn were: 2, 13, 19, 27, 50 and the Powerball was 5. ...
Jan 12, 2004, 6:44 am - Lottery News forum
Powerball Jackpot Jumps To $21 Million
One again, the jackpot in America's favorite lottery game is on the way up. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 327,513 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.5 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $21 million.The cash option for the Saturday, January 10 drawing will be an estimated $11.7 million.The numbers drawn were: 4, 7, 14, 18, 44 and the Powerball w ...
Jan 8, 2004, 5:21 am - Lottery News forum
Record lottery winner accused of making death threats
The winner of the largest single lottery jackpot in U.S. history has been accused of threatening to kill the manager of a bar.Andrew Jack Whittaker, who won the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas 2002, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of threatening Todd Parsons, the manager of Billy Sundays Bar and Grill in St. Albans.Whittaker, who reportedly was banned from the bar, is accused of trying to hit Parsons and threatening to have the victim and his family killed, according to police ...
Jan 7, 2004, 11:36 am - Lottery News forum
N.C. Couple Claims Half of $221.5 Million Powerball Prize
So where do two of America's newest multimillion-dollar lottery winners eat lunch to celebrate? Try the Steak n Shake.Norman and Deanna Shue went to the burger joint Thursday after finding out they had won half of Wednesday's $221.5 million Powerball jackpot. They wanted to claim the prize but couldn't because state offices were closed for New Year's Day.The construction project manager from Concord, N.C., and his computer-programmer wife can take $110.75 million over 30 years or an immediate l ...
Jan 2, 2004, 5:57 pm - Lottery News forum
Convenience store sells winning PA Powerball ticket
Holder of ticket sold at store near York will split $221.5 million with S.C. winnerA Powerball ticket whose owner can claim half of a $221.5 million New Year's Eve jackpot was sold at a convenience store outside York, officials said yesterday. Our employees are riding really high right now, because they know somebody on the staff sold the winning ticket, said Scott Hartman, the president of Rutter's Farm Stores, a chain of 51 convenience stores. The ticket sold at the chain's Arsenal Road store ...
Jan 2, 2004, 9:06 am - Lottery News forum
Clover, S.C. store sold winning lottery ticket
S.C. town waits for Powerball winner to come forwardAs people drove past the tidy mill houses in town and the mobile homes on the outskirts of town Thursday, they couldnt help but wonder: Is somebody in one of those homes holding the $110 million ticket?One of two winning tickets in the $221.5 million Powerball lottery was sold Wednesday morning at Clover Shop and Save, about four miles below the state line. (The other winning ticket was bought in Pennsylvania.)As of late Thursday, no one had co ...
Jan 2, 2004, 9:03 am - Lottery News forum
Three Lottery Winners Wait to Step Forward
Someone who buys lottery tickets in this Cleveland suburb is going to have a prosperous new year. Ditto for ticket buyers in Pennsylvania and South Carolina.A winning Mega Millions ticket worth $162 million was sold at a convenience store here, said Mardele Cohen, an Ohio Lottery spokeswoman. It was the only ticket in the 11-state jackpot that matched all the numbers in Tuesday night's drawing.The winning numbers were 12, 18, 21, 32 and 46. The Mega Ball number was 49.By the time lottery office ...
Jan 2, 2004, 9:01 am - Lottery News forum
$221.5 million Powerball prize split between two tickets
Two winning tickets, one purchased in Pennsylvania and the other in South Carolina, will split the Powerball New Year's Eve jackpot worth $221.5 million.Thirty players correctly matched the five white numbers and won $100,000 each.Better-than-expected sales caused the jackpot to jump from the estimated $210 million to $221.5 million.The winners will have to decide if they want a 29-year, 30-payment annuity or the cash option worth $60.1 million each. They have 60 days after their ticket is vali ...
Jan 1, 2004, 2:42 am - Lottery News forum
Powerball Fact Sheet
Here's some interesting facts about tonight's estimated $210 million Powerball jackpot drawing.New Year's Eve Draw Information$210 million jackpot would rank as the 5th largest Powerball jackpot ever.It would also rank as the 7th largest lottery jackpot ever.This is the largest current lottery jackpot in the world.The estimated cash option is $113.9 million.The New Year's Eve draw will be the 16th draw of this jackpot run. The run started with the Saturday, November 8 drawing.There have been no ...
Dec 31, 2003, 3:09 pm - Lottery News forum
